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Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys



On Tuesday 17 April 2007 23:18, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:30 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 22:13, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:48 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:07, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > >
> > > ls -l /dev/ptmx
> > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root      5,   2 2007-04-17 16:51 /dev/ptmx
> > >
> > > ls -ld /dev/pts
> > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root           0 2007-04-13 08:39 /dev/pts
> >
> > Got those
> >
> > > ls -l /dev/pts/1
> > > crw--w---- 1 greg tty 136, 1 2007-04-17 16:57 /dev/pts/1
> >
> > Not this
>
> [snip]
>
> You wouldn't have this as I had a XFce Terminal open just to have
> something there.
>
> Personally, I am not aware of anything.
>
> On the off chance, can you do "ALT+F2" and run "konsole --ls" which
> starts it with a login shell rather than a regular shell? This may
> help separate from udev and other stuff.

OK, I think its the latest kernel and some interaction with my 
motherboard.  I just booted a hand compiled 2.6.19 (originally done 
when Debian was on 2.6.18 - because was needed to load the AGPGART 
module) and I've got my ptys back.

Looks to be a problem with 2.6.20.

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk



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